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Yadong county tourist attractions

Yadong County is located at the southern foot of the middle Himalayan Mountains, bordering Bhutan in the east and Sikkim in the west, with a border of 290 kilometers. The whole Yadong county is a battery-like stepped landform with wide north and narrow south, high north and low south. The county has an average elevation of 3,500 meters and a total land area of 4,276 square kilometers. The county has jurisdiction over 5 townships and 2 towns, 25 administrative villages (residential) and 67 natural villages. In 2003, the county's total population was 1 1687, including Tibetans, Han people, Canadians and Sherpas, of which Tibetans accounted for 98%, and the floating population accounted for more than 5,000 people during the year. In addition, there are not some expatriates from Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim and other countries living in China. Ya Bu County is 390 kilometers away from Shigatse and 580 kilometers away from Lhasa, the capital of the autonomous region. Generally speaking, Yadong County has beautiful scenery, mild climate, rich water resources and rich products, and is known as "Little Jiangnan in Tibet".

Yadong (Zhuomu) means "whirlpool valley, rapids and deep valleys" in Tibetan. Historically, it once belonged to Parison, but Yadong is just a small village in Zhuomushan Valley. 1904 After Britain invaded Lhasa, it coerced the local government of Tibet to sign the Lhasa Treaty and opened Yadong and other places as commercial ports. 1June, 960, Yadong County People's Government was established, which belongs to the Gyangze area. 1964 In May, Gyangze and Shigatse merged, and Yadong was placed under Shigatse until now. Dismount town is the seat of Yadong county government. Today, Yadong is the gateway of trade and cultural exchanges between China and Bhutan, Sikkim and India, and also an important border county in southern Tibet, which has important strategic significance in the military.

In Yadong County, there are not only rich natural tourism resources, but also profound humanistic tourism resources, including "one spring and two temples, one lake and one mountain, one grass and one tree", namely Kangbu Hot Spring, Dongga Temple, Gaju Temple, Duoqing Lake, Zhuomulari Snow Mountain, Parry Grassland, Lower Yadong Primitive Forest and Yadonggou natural scenery.